Amherst College: Johnson Chapel
Amherst, MA
Images
ca. 2020 - Close up of façade pipes (Photograph by Amherst College Website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon /Andrew Scanlon )
ca. 2020 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Amherst College Website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon /Andrew Scanlon )
ca. 2020 - Side view of front platform showing organ gallery (Photograph by Amherst College Website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
ca. 2020 - Chapel interior from rear, showing front organ gallery (Photograph by Amherst College Website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
ca. 2020 - Console and pipe facade (Photograph by Amherst College Website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 45 stops
- 52 registers
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Ceiling installation. -Database Manager
2006-11-17 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Extant; unaltered; ceiling installation.</i> -Database Manager
2008-02-27 - Updated through online information from Alex Speir. -- Experienced slight water damage in the past; two side chambers in the chancel hold the pipes which speak through screens in the upper walls; great faces the congregation; tutti function inoperable but crescendo pedal achieves the same function. -Database Manager
2012-04-18 - Updated through online information from Bill Czelusniak. -- The console position listed is correct; and, it / the player faces a facade of pipework, all of which is mute and decorative only, and is mounted against (the inside of) an outside wall of the building. The Great is NOT there. The ENTIRE organ is an ATTIC installation - the Great and Pedal are above the console and speak downwards (if that is possible!) through open grillework in that ceiling. The Choir division is to the left and the large Swell division to the right, which speak both through side grilles in the choir area, and into and down through the Great/Pedal chamber and grille. In case this description sounds questionable, let me inform that the tonal egress of this instrument is highly challenged, at best. In the chambers, this organ is spectacular, the well-considered work of a master; and, it remains wholly unaltered (as well as unrestored) since 1933. -Database Manager
Stoplist
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst College - Johnson Chapel
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 911 1933 3 manuals, 45 stops, 54 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN CHOIR ORGAN
16' Contra Gemshorn 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Open Diapason I 61 8' Melodia 73
8' Open Diapason II 61 8' Salicional 73
8' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Gemshorn 61 4' Principal 73
5 1/3' Quint 61 4' Flute 73
4' Octave 61 2 2/3' Nazard 61
4' Gemshorn 61 2' Piccolo 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 1 3/5' Tierce 61
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Clarinet 73
V Sesquialtera 305 8' English Horn 73
8' Trumpet 61 Tremolo
Chimes
PEDAL ORGAN
SWELL ORGAN 16' Contra Bass 32
16' Flute Conique 73 16' Bourdon 32
8' Geigen 73 16' Gemshorn GT
8' Rohrflöte 73 16' Flute Conique SW
8' Gambe 73 8' Octave 32
8' Voix Celeste 73 8' Flute 12
8' Echo Viole 73 8' Spitzflöte SW
8' Echo Viole Celeste (TC) 61 4' Super Octave 32
4' Octave Geigen 73 4' Flute 12
4' Flute Triangulaire 73 16' Trombone 32
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 16' Posaune SW
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Tromba 12
VI Mixture 366 Chimes GT
16' Posaune 73
8' Trumpet 73
8' Corno d'Amore 73
8' Vox Humana 73
4' Clarion 73
Tremolo
[Received from Steven E. Lawson August 14, 2014]
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